2012 Nobel Prize in Economics
To Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley “for an outstanding example of economic engineering.” I assign Roth’s “Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets” in my Political Economy/Institutions class – anyone who has a paper that includes an analysis of “dwarf tossing,” as Roth does, deserves the Nobel.
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Brandon Dupont, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Economics at Western Washington University where he teaches economic history, the history of economic thought, microeconomics, labor economics and political economy. He has published on a variety of topics in American economic history and labor economics and is currently working on an undergraduate history of economic thought textbook.